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simoncox

@simoncox@seocommunity.social

Technical SEO and general webmastery stuff in the UK since 1995. Also at: https://mastodon.social/@simoncox
and:
https://www.simoncox.com
https://coxand.co.uk

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simoncox, (edited ) to random
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Going to try darning some of my lovely wool socks for

Got a proper darning mushroom and needles!

simoncox,
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@Fizzle_Up
i have yet to have a go so there may well be blood on the rooftops here. My mum has a victorian one with a spring around it that i did use as a student but haven't done any since!

simoncox, to random
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Hmmm, @cloudflare are depreciating auto minify in August because of dropping amount of usage - “since minification is included in most modern web development frameworks.”

So my carefully crafted hand built sites on Cloudflare will be slightly slower because they don’t use a ‘modern web development framework’.

simoncox,
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@andydavies
Means I’m going to spend some time looking at the sites I have on there and that will mean I will probably find some bigger issues, so I should be grateful really!

ilovechoclates_, to random
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Today I noindexed 3 pages on @packted. I am excited to see what's gonna happen next

simoncox,
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@ilovechoclates_ @packted

Why ? 😀

MikeBlazer, to SEO
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Google vs. independent publishers. #seo #meme

simoncox,
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@MikeBlazer

That's savage.

andybaio, to random
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The latest Bobby Fingers video is a ride, as usual, recreating the moment just before '90s heartthrob Fabio was hit by a goose while riding a rollercoaster— or was he? The last five minutes are wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s

simoncox,
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@andybaio
Thank you for this Andy - truly amazing! 🤣

eleventy, to random
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New video: 11ty Conference (2024) Break Slideshow: Personal Sites Montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aQ7_yD44s

simoncox,
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@eleventy

Awesome - I had to dash for a comfort break for this part and only caught the end of it live so thank you for uploading it as my lovely site is there a couple before @bobmonsour lovely site! Hurrah!

sturobson, to random
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Watching the online Into Design Systems conference.

🤞 it might give me some chutzpah to get out of this hole I've been in for ~12 months.

simoncox,
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@sturobson

Animation of a knitted Gnome knitting which turns into a heart, with eyes (no idea why), and floats up into the air.

mattround, to random
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I got to the Big Twist in AppleTV's Sugar (it's no spoiler to say there's one, it's been clear since the trailer, right?) and... somehow they've managed to make it seem like no big deal, weirdly it hasn't fundamentally changed the show

simoncox,
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@mattround
Got there last week and it explained a few things and I'm like - yeah, ok lets keep going.

Had read a review where the twist ruined it for the reviewer - expect that reviewer had no imagination!

simoncox,
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@mattround
Ohh good point! I really like the film noir aspect to this series.

zeldman, to random
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Happy 21st anniversary to . Thanks to Web Design Museum for the reminder.

simoncox,
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@zeldman

🍻🎂

simoncox, to SEO
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@MontseCano Forgot to mention you, and @nickwilsdon, were mentioned on the screen during Lorcan Fearon's excellent talk on Shopify!

I'm just going back through replays of talks now.

heysannidhi, to SEO
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News ≠ Blog and Blog ≠ News

On many sites, I notice that "News" is used as the anchor text for links leading to main blog page. This is misleading. The anchor text for blogs should be "Blog", not "News".

simoncox,
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@heysannidhi

I believe there can be a very grey line between what is news content and blog content.

Some sites use the blog components of a CMS to run an organisations official news output. Is that blog or news?

On a personal site are articles news or blog posts? The definition of news is not limited to content output from media conglomerates, you can have personal news too.
So yes News ≠ Blog and Blog ≠ News but it does depend!

mattround, to random
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Big news, can we pleeeease have this everywhere? https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155312/microsoft-word-default-paste-option-merge-formatting

simoncox,
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@mattround
Oh my Word!

Does this mean tomorrow is Sunday and the day after that is also Sunday and the day after that and so on for 30 odd days?

jfroehlich, to 11ty
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I have the weird feeling that the button to the documentation got slightly bigger since the ...

simoncox,
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@jfroehlich
Could be! It certainly has got more colourful lately!

rhyswynne, to Eurovision
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Olly Alexander. The streets won't forget.

simoncox,
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@rhyswynne
The Streets will not forget for Years and Years…

simoncox, (edited ) to random
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More auror a

Kinda.

simoncox, to Eurovision
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Popped out during #eurovision to get a shot of the #aurora

Come on Finland!

rhyswynne, to random
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Shout out to my science teacher neighbour who blocked me on WhatsApp 6 months ago unblocked me last night, rang me at 11:45pm, text me to say "The Aurora Borealis is outside right now and I don't want you to miss it", sent me a photo of said Aurora Borealis ABOVE MY HOUSE, then blocked me again.

(I didn't see them)

simoncox,
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@rhyswynne
🤣

randderuiter, to random

Too many folks believe social media's all about reach. They optimize for posts that can earn thousands or millions of engagements.

But there's another way to view these networks - as 1:1 connectors.

Like anyone, I think it's cool when one of my posts here "does well." But 99% of my activity is the opposite. I read & reply to people when I like their work or want to support/amplify them. I post things that are valuable for 100 people but not of much interest to millions. And it works great 🥰

simoncox,
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@randderuiter
That is a great mindset Rand! I realy like that approach.

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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Planning on doing a full Organizer retrospective blog post, but in the interest of transparency here’s a peek at the conference budget (funded primarily by our Open Collective, prices in USD):

Expenses: $7574.20
Revenue: $4653.79 (Free event, but via sponsors and merch)
Profit: -$2920.41

Edit: Fixed a spreadsheet error 😬

simoncox,
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@zachleat
Oh ouch! Think most would have paid for a ticket.

Fizzle_Up, to SEO
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Guess what I've discovered isn't fun... trying to update WordPress with Arabic characters in plugins that only function with the Latin alphabet.

simoncox,
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@optimisey @Fizzle_Up
Was that because you were unused to working with Arabic - just wondering if the reverse would be true for someone who only works in Arabic trying to work in a latin language - or is something else at work here?

To add - nothing is wrong here - I'm just curious!

simoncox,
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@optimisey @Fizzle_Up Thought that might be it! Have had small brushes with designing layouts that had to use both LtR and RtL languages pages before and it can be a head spinner!

simoncox,
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@optimisey @Fizzle_Up

I have never tried designing a page of vertical reading text though!

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